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And now here's your host, NLW.

Welcome back to The Breakdown.

It is Tuesday, June 2nd.

And today, my guest is Alex Gladstein.

Alex is the chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation, which is a

non-profit dedicated to building or enabling or encouraging more free, open, and flourishing

societies, and combating authoritarianism around the world. Alex's perspective and experience is

obviously hugely contextual today in a world where we're

dealing at home in the U.S. with these protests and trying to piece out what a successful

strategy for combating police militarism and police brutality is, where we're thinking about

and having to understand a rising surveillance

state, and of course, the larger global context of not only surveillance, but huge geopolitical

issues, like the relationship between China and Hong Kong. Alex is well known in Bitcoin

communities as he thinks and believes pretty deeply that Bitcoin is one of the key tools,

the key anti-authoritarian tools for people around the world. So I hope you enjoy this conversation

as much as I did. And please keep in mind that whenever we do these long interviews, they're

edited only very lightly. So I hope you enjoy it. All right, we are here with Alex Gladstein. Alex, it's good to talk.

I was about to say it's good to have you back, but actually, you haven't been on the show. We just,

I think, think about similar things a lot and talk about similar things a lot. And, you know,

it's funny that we're finally connecting the dots here. Yeah, happy to be here to hang out. So there is a lot going on.

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